Presentation of the alliance

The Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) was the coalition led by Vojislav Kostunica, which got rid
of Slobodan Milošević in October 2000 and led the country since then.
Dragoljub Micunović, the DOS candidate, could not win the 2003
presidential election and was even beaten by 11% by Tomislav Nikolić,
the candidate of the extreme rightist Serbian
Radical Party. Since only 38% of the electors voted, the
presidential election was cancelled for the third time. Therefore,
the DOS was disbanded on 18 November 2003. It seems that the
disbanding was mostly decided by the Democratic
Party, the party founded by the former Prime Minister Zoran
Đinđić, murdered on 12 March 2003.

Source:Danas (Belgrad), reported by Courrier
International

Ivan Sache, 5 December 2003

The Democratic Opposition of Serbia (in further text:
DOS) had originally consisted of the following parties
and organizations (name of each member in Serbian is
given in brackets after its name in English):

The Democratic Party of Serbia left the government
in July 2001, as the protest against extradition of
Slobodan Milošević to the Hague Tribunal, and
officially left the coalition in July next year.
Socialdemocracy was pushed into the opposition
in May 2001 after a split in the party, as the faction
which was eventually recognized by the Supreme Court
as the legitimate name bearer, was not regarded as
such by the DOS, which transferred all the positions
held by the party members to the other faction's
adherents. That faction, having not received the legal
recognition, had merged in July 2002 with the Social
Democratic Union into the Social Democratic Party
(Socijaldemokratska partija). In March 2003, after a
split in this party, the Social Democratic Union was
renewed, still being a member of the DOS, while the
Social Democratic Party was excluded from the
coalition in November 2003, after having announced
that it would support the opposition's demand for
voting of the confidence to the government.
In May 2003, New Serbia was excluded from the
coalition after a series of conflicts with the other
members.
4. In 2003, New Democracy was renamed into the
Liberals of Serbia (Liberali Srbije), and Association
of Free and Independent Trade Unions has founded the
Labourist Party of Serbia (Laburistička partija
Srbije), to which it transferred its membership in the
DOS.

Consequently, the members of the DOS before its
self-dissolution were: